Just Transition
Leadership Program
-Uniting Communities, Driving Change-
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The Just Transition Leadership Program brings together passionate individuals who are eager to learn and apply community organizing, intercultural communication, and grassroots leadership skills to accelerate positive change in their communities and across Washington State by implementing the Just Transition framework.
Join us in creating a collective movement toward a more just and equitable future!
About the Program
Participants will join a cohort of community leaders interested in building/advancing collaborative efforts to promote collective action while exploring models of self-determination in decision-making processes in public and community spaces.
This 9-month program offers opportunities to co-design tools and share experiences through experiential learning modules, site visits, guest speaker presentations, peer mentoring, and a supportive diverse network of community leaders and advocates.
Front and Centered designed this program to foster a culture of collaboration, solidarity, liberation, self-determination, and co-creation, integrating anti-oppressive, intersectional, and regenerative world views across our state.
The vision is to promote collective power to advance a transformative and inclusive environmental and climate justice movement through a Just Transition.
Why participate in this program?
Participants will become part of a supportive network of community leaders who want to make a positive change in their communities and organizations while driving systemic change.
This program promotes a collective and community-centered leadership that builds on individual skills and community assets to promote action through the following areas:
Leadership in Community: Connect and collaborate with like-minded leaders through a strong network of activists, mentors, and advocates, who collectively can be a source of inspiration, support, and collective power.
Strategic collective action: Learn community organizing strategies and acquire collective action leadership skills that can be applied to community-centered project design, implementation, and management processes.
Movement of movements: Learn from other organizations about their experiences implementing a Just Transition strategy in the state, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Building power: Explore different levels of power and influence within community groups, institutions, government agencies, organizations, as well as foundations, as a way to build capacity to promote community and climate resilience. Discover new and effective ways of advocacy through strategic communications practices.
Community power: Grow as a cohort, sharing and learning about ideas, experiences, and different forms of knowledge with other participants as part of cultivating, collective learning spaces rooted in principles of solidarity and reciprocity.
Commitment to Justice: Collaborate to continue fostering the well-being of historically disenfranchised communities by cultivating a deeper understanding of the intersection between social, environmental, and climate justice.